For all those absurd, wholesome, and stimulating conversations we have safely in our living rooms and WhatsApp chats, ACYL brings them to light every week with something that made us think. From culture, science, orgasms, drugs (oh, no we don't do drugs!): we look at these seemingly everyday topics in all the colors we like (or not!)
It’s Not Me, It’s Definitely You: Dating ICKS 🙅♀️💀
Dating in 2025 is wild, and Mahima, Ankit, and Laksh are here to break it down—the good, the bad, and the straight-up icky. From the usual red flags like ghosting and zero effort to the more controversial icks (fake lashes? baby voice? instant nope), they’re getting brutally honest. Plus, as brown men in the dating scene, Ankit and Laksh unpack the reputation problem—are they fighting an uphill battle, or is it deserved? Expect hot takes, debates, and maybe a little self-dragging in this no-filter episode of Any Color You Like
25 Dec 2024
American dream or American struggle? Lay-offs, American Universities, F1 visa with Adya Roy @thedesicareerwoman
For today’s elevated kitty party of Any Color You Like, we’re diving into some insightful gappe with two incredible guests who embody the highs and lows of chasing the so-called 'American Dream.'
First up, we have the ever-beautiful Adya Roy, famously known as the 'Desi Career Woman.' A fellow Boilermaker and our big didi in the American corporate world, Adya is full of priceless advice on building a career abroad. Having survived three layoffs and emerged stronger each time, she’s here to share her hard-earned wisdom. Joining her is the fearless and creative Kritvi Methi, a double graduate in communications from two of America’s top colleges who got a job at Hello Sunshine before finding herself back in Noida—loool.
Both of our guests, like so many of us, have been chasing the alluring promise of stability and success that defines the 'American Dream.' But how attainable is it really, amidst layoffs, visa struggles, and a fiercely competitive job market? Today, we’re peeling back the layers to uncover the realities behind the dream, exploring the setbacks, strategies, and resilience it takes to carve out a life and career in America. By the end, we hope to leave you with colorful and nuanced perspectives on turning any dream into a reality.
17 Nov 2024
Why are women bad with money? with Sneha Khatri, co-founder Alice Club
ARE WOMEN REALLY BAD WITH MONEY? 💸 IS GIRL MATH A THING? 🧮 WHY DON’T WE BOND OVER MONEY LIKE MEN DO? 🤔
Let’s face it—when the word “finance” pops up, many of us freeze (been there!). But why is money still a source of stress, silence, and self-doubt for so many women? In this episode, we sit down with Sneha Khatri, co-founder of Alice Club (https://aliceclub.in/)—a revolutionary wealth management platform empowering women in India.
This isn’t your typical “how to budget” session. We’re breaking down the cultural, emotional, and psychological barriers women face around money and asking the big questions: Why do so many women feel like they need permission to take charge of their finances, while teenage boys swap stock tips like movie spoilers?
It’s 2024, and there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. So instead of rules, we’re focusing on reframing the way we think about money—fearlessly, honestly, and unapologetically.
💡 Ready to own your financial journey with confidence and clarity? Tune in for an unfiltered conversation that’s all about YOU taking charge.
👉 P.S. Check out Alice Club—your new financial BFF: https://aliceclub.in/ (https://aliceclub.in/)
27 Aug 2024
Why you should solo travel : My 2 months backpacking in southeast Asia
Mahima with her 20kg backpack promised her friends & family that she would be back in a few weeks from her solo traveling stunt which ended up becoming a 2-months long, most fulfilling experience of her life as she experienced this beautiful earth in wild-wild south East Asian countries Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Bali, and Thailand.
Kritvi grills Mahima on everything from surviving on street food to making new friends with Google Translate. From getting lost in translation (literally) to discovering the magic of solo travel, this episode is a rollercoaster of hilarious misadventures, challenges, and triumphs of solo travel leading to unforgettable moments, and the life lessons learned along the way - shuffling between those “What am I even doing here?” and “This is why I am alive” moments.
Whether you're planning your own trip or just here for the laughs, this episode is your passport to all things chaotic and fun. Grab your headphones and get ready for some seriously entertaining travel stories!
26 Apr 2024
Rejections in Dating, Emotional Detachment & how to move on
Let's get real for this one. Mahima's solo episode sounds like a best friends monologue. A whirlwind romance with a guy right after a tough break up was not the Belgian welcome she had expected. Despite a smooth 'situationship' - one day, it was gone. Poof. Vanished off of the face of the earth. And somehow, this 'situationship' heartbreak, if one can even call it that, hurt more than your regular relationship one.
Tune in to see how she took back control, surrendered to her 'feminine', and took a solo trip that changed everything.
27 Mar 2024
Quitting Dream Jobs and Our Ideas of Success ft Mohak Kapoor
What happens when your dream job becomes a real life nightmare? In this deeply personal episode, we confront a culture where our sense of worth is so intrinsically attached to what we do for work. Mohak is a corporate lawyer, specializing in multi-million dollar deals and living a life many can only dream of. And yet, he finds himself shackled by "golden handcuffs" - unable to detach from the prestige and paycheck his job affords him, even if is at the cost of his physical and mental health. Mahima has recently quit her scientist job in Belgium and Kritvi - well, she is still ~ figuring it out ~
How did Mohak go from being anxiety ridden, to transforming his "golden handcuffs" into something more liberating – like a "golden bracelet"? How and why did Mahima quit her job? What the hell is Kritvi going to do? Can we carve out a career that's both successful and satisfying? Let's find out.
6 Mar 2024
Tits Up! Exposing Bras, Blame and Boobie Banter ft. Abhilasha Kotwal
YES! We are back with a bang (nope, boobs) for our second season of Any Color You Like. In this episode, we are joined by the future PM of India, Abhilasha Kotwal. From being forced to wear double bras by our school institutions to not 'distract' men to all the totkas our mothers told us to keep our boobies in check to finally learning how to finally embrace it. In a society that defines and confines our relationship with our body, we explore through this episode how we took our powers back and hopefully, you leave with a renewed self-confidence after listening to this episode that is defined by YOUR comfort!
10 Jul 2023
Inside the Closet: Being Queer in India with Agents of Ishq
For the final episode of season 1, we are in conversation with Anshumaan and Debby from Agents of Ishq: they give sex a good name! This is not your regular tokenistic pride podcast, today we skip the theories and definitions to talk about queer awakenings, crushes, and heartbreaks, unearth the vibrant queer history in India, and reveal the best gay make-out spot in Mumbai. We talk about gay fashion and confusing labels and coming out to grandmothers with so much in between. But most importantly we talk about how supporting the queer community enriches all of our lives, regardless of who we choose to love. Please follow them on Instagram and explore their website for all things love, sex and queer! You can even submit your own stories - which can be completely anonymous by the way - but can help so many others feel seen. Submit your stories here: agentsofishq@gmail.com (mailto:agentsofishq@gmail.com) #desiqueer #LGBTQIndia
11 Jun 2023
ChatGPT Explained & India's Plans to Win the AI Race ft. Abhinav Thakur
Abhinav Thakur is the Sharma Ji Ka Beta you have heard about - made it through IIT and killing it in the field of AI! In this episode, he explains chat GPT like we're 5, reveals Open AI's biggest secret, and gives us the inside scoop on Modi Ji's plan to win the AI race.
28 Apr 2023
The Curious Case of the Female Orgasm ft. Leeza Mangaldas
As the saying goes, "curiosity killed the cat," but in this case, curiosity has led Kritvi and Mahima down a hilarious and slightly NSFW (rabbit) hole. (Puns intended).Joining us today is the one and only desi-queen of communication, Leeza Mangaldas! With her we talk about desi parents and sex (awkward), fake moans and orgasms (unnecessary) and how to experience self pleasure (super important). We even get into the ins and outs (also pun intended) of equality in the bedroom, and answer the age old question: why do men not go down under? and let’s just say THINGS GET HEATED.And, as if that wasn't enough, we've got some exciting news to share - Leeza has launched her own line of sex toys! Check them out at leezus.com (http://leezus.com) and get ready to take your pleasure to the next level.So, grab a glass of wine, toy (or whatever tickles your fancy), and join us for some laughs and a lot of "oh my!" moments in this episode of "Curious Case of the Female Orgasm." Don't forget to check out Leeza's "Sex Podcast" on Spotify where she answers all your burning questions. Who knows what kind of surprises await?#femaleorgasm #women #selfpleasure
31 Mar 2023
Fake Accents & Why It's Hard To Make Friends Outside Our Culture
In this episode we talk about why we fake accents, whether we are conditioned to believe "some" people are better than us, and how we can make friends with people outside our own culture.
15 Feb 2023
Situationships: love, sex or dhoka?
This Valentine's week ACYL dives deeper into the most overused word of 2022: "Situationship". Love them, Hate them, you're probably in them. And no denying that situationships can come with their own benefits unless one of you finally catches feelings and then it's like "oh f#@k!". In this episode, we talk about everything situationship, the pros, the cons, how to successfully be in one, and how & when to get out of them when you need to! So sit back and enjoy ACYL's take on this global pandemic of our generation that helps you navigate it better.
2 Feb 2023
10 Tips for Living Alone: through the good and the bad
In part II of the living alone series, Co-hosts Mahima and Kritvi talk about some of their favorite tools that have helped them on their good and bad days as they figure out this whole living alone thing. How do you cook for one person? budgeting, what's that? who will take care of you on your sick day? the vacuum cleaner broke and so did you, how do I fix it? how do I stop my brain from going on a spiral? Phew! Use this episode as a guide you can revisit on days you want some inspiration or just two friends to tell you, You've got this! and we believe in you!
2 Feb 2023
Living Alone in your 20s - even though it's scary as fuck
In the past 9 years, Mahima has found her home on 3 different continents, so living alone for her is how life is "supposed" to be. But for Kritvi, she found herself all alone after 25 years of living with a community when she moved to LA in the fall of 2022. In this episode, we dig deeper into our experiences of growing through emotions of being by ourselves - somedays loving, somedays absolutely hating it. Tune into this episode if you're in your 20s living alone, thinking to move out, or just for some wholesome journeys that have been life-changing for us!
9 Oct 2022
Turning 25 - older, wiser and in bed by 10pm
there is so much said about the quarter life crisis... but here at ACYL we're loving getting old! (apart from the rotting spinach in Mahima's fridge, back pain, inability to handle alcohol, growing debt, scattered friends, needy parents, did we say back pain??) haha but really though - this episode is the first time we sit down without a script and look back at 15 year old Kishi and Mahima, and see how far we have come in this decade. life still sucks but we kinda sorta love it anyway!
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4 Oct 2022
Should Billionaires Exist?
Do we want to be a billionaire so fucking bad, buy all the things we never had? Well, some billionaires are not inherently bad people. They have given us a lot, from 1-day delivery to cancer research to Beyonce concert (yes, Mukesh Amabani we are talking about you!), they have been a driving force towards “invention” in our society but with the brutal inequality at its peak and climate change becoming a joke: do we necessarily need to have space races or 2660 people controlling the 99% of the humanity? Where do we draw the line? Should we even care about that “line”? Do they really impact US negatively? In this episode, Kritvi and Mahima are back to unfold all the good, the bad, and the ugly of “billionaires”. Fulled by interesting research and digging into the billionaire industry back home, India we are here to share lots of opinions and data with our episode 4 of Any Color You Like.
4 Oct 2022
Can we Manifest Bad Stuff? Is Nazar Real?
too often we see people teaching us how to manifest "a life we love" - but what happens during the times when life doesn't love you back? it's all too stupid to believe that its always rainbows and sunshines - although - it's definitely smart to believe that they are on their way. so in part 2 of our conversation on manifestation, we decode: - is nazar / "evil eye" actually real? (tl;dr - no) - do we manifest our tragedies? - how we can use manifestation tools during transition periods and "rock bottom" - how manifestation works with mental health and anxiety - so are we supposed to stay positive ALL THE TIME??
4 Oct 2022
Manifestation - Without The Instagram Influencer Bullshit
With over 4 billion (!!) videos on manifestation, we're sure it's hard to cut through the capitalistic crap and find some 🤌 quality content that does true justice to this topic. In these 27 odd minutes, we tell you our unbelievable manifestation miracles, expose some scams, give you some "scientific", practical gyaan, and take you on a super fun ride, in any color you like!
28 Apr 2022
Pilot: here's to being limitless
welcome to any color you like - a podcast co-hosted by Kritvi Methi and Mahima Grover - where anything goes and nothing is off-limits. shaped by our chaotic and colorful experience across the world, we bring you seemingly straightforward yet bizarre conversations that are stuck in our heads, WhatsApp chats, and on our dining tables. in our pilot, we talk about:
❥ what is any color you like?
❥ why the hell should you listen to us?
❥ who are these two random desi girls taking up space on the internet?
❥format of our podcast and all the cool+lame stories we can't wait to share with you!
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